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WHAT TWO-PARTY SYSTEM?
We may never know if Dick Cheney’s move to nuke Iran was foiled by a brave and unsung band of levelheaded Air Force personnel, but something mighty strange happened in September. Nuclear-armed...
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GEE, CHENEY DIDN’T HAVE TO RESIGN…..
This story from the OPed News archives: Consider this: WMR (Wayne Madsen Report) is now reporting specifically who at ABC News’ 20/20 became fully aware of not only Cheney’s use of the escort service,...
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A KICK IN THE BALLS
On June 16, 2001, in the palmy days before 9/11, George Bush famously said of Vladimir Putin, “I looked the man in the eye. I found him to be very straightforward and trustworthy. We had a very good...
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THE AUDACITY OF BALONEY
I was going to write a scathing article on how little difference there is, really, between the current and former occupants of the White House, but first Bill Maher and then David Michael Green beat...
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McCHRYSTAL FOR PRESIDENT?
By now, Rolling Stone’s article about General McChrystal, and his consequent sacking, is old news. Michael Hastings has been excoriated by the mainstream media for doing honest reporting, the military...
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THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES
President Obama gets our truth in strange places award this month for his comment on Wikileaks’ release of tens of thousands of “secret” documents relating to the US war on Afghanistan: “these...
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LOSING INTEREST
Texas Governor Rick Perry recently lead a three-day prayer marathon, asking for God to make it rain on Texas. God’s answer? Tropical Storm Lee skipped the state, and even more wildfires have broken...
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Here’s my response to that “Mid-Tennessee Progressive Strategy” group’s response to the Obama indictment. I’ve added links, and changed it a little for greater clarity and because, when I took a...
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IN 2012, WHO WILL YOUR VOTING MACHINE VOTE FOR?
As I said, getting the state of Tennessee to recognize the Green Party’s right to appear on the ballot as a party is only half the battle. The other half involves how the votes will be cast and...
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OBAMONSANTO AND OTHER INCONVENIENT TRUTHS
A few months back, President Obama announced a three billion dollar U.S. initiative “to help Africa feed itself, “which is a noble goal, but the devil was all over his details. The first detail to...
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NOT THE REVOLUTION WE HAD IN MIND…SO FAR
I came of age in the 1960’s. I was brought up Jewish, in a synagogue whose Rabbi was an enthusiastic supporter of the civil rights movement, travelled to the South on several occasions in solidarity...
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THE CONTEXT OF THE ASSAULT ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD
First of all, we have to accept that mainstream American politics has long been about which party’s lies resonate better with the voters. For most of the last 35 years, the Republicans have had the...
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PAINTING OURSELVES INTO A CORNER
American democracy has been functionally describable as “a two-party system” for most of our country’s history. There have been “third parties,” but they have rarely been successful at breaking into...
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THE DEMOCRATS ARE THE NEW REPUBLICANS…CAN THE GREENS BECOME “THE NEW DEMOCRATS”?
Today’s date, September 11th, is, to borrow President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s words, “a day that will live in infamy.” On this date in 1973, Salvador Allende, the Bernie Sanders of Chile, who,...
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HATE
This is a chapter from Charles Eisenstein’s 2013 book, “The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know is Possible.” Through the several years I have been serializing this book on my radio show, I have...
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